Enhancing Sleep Health: Apple Sleep Notification UI Redesign
A mini design case study
I am an interactive, informative and creative designer who is motivated by the desire to solve both the users' problems and the business problems and design a thoughtful, engaging, simple but interactive product with the sole intention of solving the users' needs while also positively impacting company growth.
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Introduction
When it comes to the sleep notification on Apple phones, users tend to set it because they want to make use of it by going to bed at that time. But the current UI doesn't make it hard for users to continue with the activity that has gotten all of their attention at the moment.
We all need quality sleep and a good amount of it to continue the next day’s activity more energetically and soundly. But when one can easily ignore their sleep notification reminder it kills the purpose of being set in the first place.
Current UI Design
Yes, we’d all agree that when using our Apple phones and our sleep notification comes up, it catches our attention for a split second. Still, we immediately ignore it, defeating the aim of making us drop our phones to sleep. The text and icons of the design are small and can be difficult to interact with mostly for users with visual impairments.
Possible UI Improvement
Remember the goal of the sleep notification is to make us drop our phones and rest for the night. How can we ensure that this goal is met, we start by making the reminder notification hard to dismiss, ignore, or close. Provide some time off experience that leads to bedtime, and ensure that during the time off users are unable to access other applications freely otherwise defeating the aim yet again of making them go to bed.
Here are the screens for the possible UI improvement flow
User interface explanation
Check out the UI Redesign on Behance
Thank you for reading.
